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1. Byzantine Art

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   The visual language of Byzantine art is inseparable from the theological evolution of Eastern Orthodoxy. Art served not merely as illustration but as a mechanism for spiritual contemplation and participation in the divine economy. The development of icon veneration, definitively settled at the Second Council of Nicaea (787 CE), provided the philosophical justification for the consistent and standardized depiction of sacred personages [2].
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